The "Middle East and Terrorism" Blog was created in order to supply information about the implication of Arab countries and Iran in terrorism all over the world. Most of the articles in the blog are the result of objective scientific research or articles written by senior journalists.

From the Ethics of the Fathers: "He [Rabbi Tarfon] used to say, it is not incumbent upon you to complete the task, but you are not exempt from undertaking it."

?php
>

Thursday, February 15, 2018

The solution to the Iranian problem lies in setting a brush fire - Dr. Mordechai Kedar

by Dr. Mordechai Kedar

The drone over Israel was the harbinger of more to come and there is only one way out of it.

This past weekend, Israel experienced an escalation in the
level of the conflict it is engaged in against the regular armed forces
of Iran in Syria. It was Iranian forces, not Hezbollah and not any other
Shiite militia, who sent an advanced drone, capable of espionage as
well as bombing, into Jordanian and Israeli airspace. The incident
escalated quickly into an attack by the Israeli Air Force on Syria's
aerial defense system and Iranian targets on the ground.

Anyone
who understands the way Iran's mind works realizes that the regime is
looking to raise the level of its struggle against Israel – first and
foremost so as to damage Israel's deterrent power, but also in order to
negatively affect its economy, tourism, morale and internal unity. We
have already watched Arab Joint List MK Aida Toume Suleiman park herself
in front of the IDF draft office armed with a megaphone, inciting new
recruits to refuse to enlist because of what she called "Israel's
violation of Syrian sovereignty."

The Iranians are
attempting, with all their power, to drag Israel into the kind of
bloodbath they created in Iraq, Yemen and Lebanon. In order to
consolidate their control , they are arming, supplying, financing and
training the various Shiite groups so as to gain a physical foothold in
the Arab world, and to encircle the Saudis, Jordanians and Israel with
the northern tentacle of the Iranian octopus (Iraq, Syria and Lebanon)
and with its southern arm (Yemen). Iran does not bother taking the Gulf
Emirates into account, believing that they will fall into its arms,
especially since Qatar is already locked in an Iranian embrace.

Saudi
Arabia is the loser in its long term dispute with Iran, mainly because
of the support US President Barack Hussein Obama afforded the
Ayatollahs and their aspirations by handing them billions of dollars and
signing the generous nuclear agreement with them, concurrently granting
them economic breathing space by ending the sanctions that threatened
their regime's stability. The cold shoulder Obama gave the Saudis, and
his support for the Iranians weakened the Saudi economy to the point
where the monarchy was forced to limit drastically its aid to its allies
in Yemen, Iraq, Syria and Lebanon. Now Iran plans to continue carrying
out its master plan by turning its face towards Israel.

The
question facing Israel's government, that of how to deal with the
growing challenge posed by Iran, leaves it no choice but to plan
concrete steps against the Islamic Republic. One way of dealing with
Iran is to repeat the failed Saudi efforts to battle Iran's proxies and
the Shiite militias armed and funded by Iran. That means a long list of
incidents over many years in which the Iranians attack us and we
retaliate, they shoot at us and "we teach them a lesson." It means one
week of fighting followed by a week of tense calm, another day of
fighting followed by a day of quiet, and the constant price of fallen,
dead and wounded, frayed Israeli nerves, limited tourism, talking
heads analyzing the "situation" and no one with any idea of how solve
the problem of ever-escalating and more frequent bouts of violence.

That
is why, before we slide down the yawning jaws of events into which Iran
is trying to drag us , we have to think 'out-of-the-box' of the failed
solutions that broke the backs of the Saudis and millions of Sunnis in
Yemen, Iraq, Syria and Lebanon who were not clever enough to try the
only thing capable of solving the Iranian problem and liberating the
world from the danger posed by the Ayatollahs – breaking up Iran into
its ethnic components.

Anyone with an interest in
Iranian sociology knows the truth: Iran is a country with tens of
ethnic parts, with the Persians making up little more than half of the
population and the rest Azars, Balochis, Kurds, Arabs, Turkmen,
Cascasi, Luris and what have you. The Balochis, Kurds and some of the
Arabs are Sunni and in a permanent state of rebellion against the
central government. The rebel organizations they have spawned are
constantly acting against that government, from acts of general sabotage
to damaging official vehicles, attacking government institutions,
police, army and security forces and their officers. The Arab minority
of Iran, in whose region the oil and gas reserves of the country are
found, consider their lands "occupied territory" since 1925 and demand
independence from Iran.

The Iranian regime does all
it can to hide the opposition's activities from the public eye. It does
not allow foreign journalists entry into the mutinous regions so as not
to expose the soft belly of the Iranian regime, but social media report
on what is happening. These activities, however, have not yet captured
the attention of the world.

There is a deep hatred of
the Ayatollahs simmering inside large sectors of Iranian society, a
hatred that burst into the streets in a series of large demonstrations
last November that have not yet entirely dissipated. The cry "death to
the dictator" was shouted by many, including many women who stood on
podiums in front of the public, removed their head coverings and hung
them on sticks to show their mockery for the Islamic law which they are
forced to observe. This phenomenon led one of the Ayatollahs to
announce that head covering for women is not mandated by Islam, and this
announcement, added to others siding with the angry demonstrations
against the widespread corruption in the corridors of the regime – is
proof of the fear that fills the hearts of the Ayatollahs at the thought
of the revenge of these angry crowds.

This is the
soft underbelly to which anyone concerned about Iran must pay heed. It
is the target at which arrows must be aimed, straight at those ethnic
groups fighting for independence and the restless youngsters fighting
for liberty. Israel can find those anti-Ayatollah forces, and this step
is totally justified, because it is exactly what the Iranian regime does
in any region where it finds someone willing to rattle the system using
Iranian money.

Besides, Iran's long term support for
Palestinian terror organizations, especially Palestinian Islamic Jihad
and Hamas in their terrorist war against Israel, justifies every Israeli
action against the Ayatollahs as a form of self defense, recognized in
international law and allowed in wartime. Iran publicly supports
terrorist organizations in Gaza, Judea and Samaria, sends drones
against Israel, defines itself as being in a state of war against
Israel, and justifies its anti-Israeli actions on different levels by
saying in "war as in war."

There is no doubt that any
Iranian who reads this article will say: "Look at these Israeli, all
they want to do is break us apart." My answer is crystal clear: "What
have you been doing for years in Syria, Iraq, Yemen and Lebanon? Aren't
you breaking apart their societies and governments after literally
breaking apart hundreds of thousands of their citizens? People who
live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones."

This
should not have to be Israel's responsibility alone. In the Middle East
and outside it, other regimes suffer from the expansionist ambitions of
Iran and are concerned about its nuclear project soon posing a real
threat to world security. The effort to unsettle Iran's stability must
be an international one, publicly declared and known. The countries of
the free world must support those minorities hungry for freedom who are
now suffering under the Persian yoke. The world's democracies must
remain true to their principles and actively support the young , modern
Iranian liberals who yearn to live according to their own choices and
not by the dictates of the Ayatollahs.

The world must
use a magnifying glass to examine the behavior of the Ayatollahs in
detail and to make them pay for every violation of civil, women and
minorities rights in Iran, giving Iranian men, women and minorities the
feeling that someone stands behind them and supports their demands.
This feeling will strengthen their resolve to fight the despotic regime
ruling Iran and bring them to act in a determined way to achieve liberty
– thereby freeing the other nations of the world from the threat of
its dark cloud .

That is the only way to free the
world of the threat of the Ayatollahs, to free the Middle East from
their grasp and to save Iran's minorities and its citizens from a slow
death under people who believe that the supreme leader is omnipotent
because he is a prophet. The world must start a brush fire burning in
the Ayatollah's backyard and send them off to oblivion.

Translated from the Hebrew by Rochel Sylvetsky

Dr. Mordechai Kedar is a senior lecturer in the Department of Arabic at Bar-Ilan
University. He served in IDF Military Intelligence for 25 years,
specializing in Arab political discourse, Arab mass media, Islamic
groups and the Syrian domestic arena. Thoroughly familiar with Arab
media in real time, he is frequently interviewed on the various news
programs in Israel.Source: https://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/21706 Follow Middle East and Terrorism on TwitterCopyright - Original materials copyright (c) by the authors.